Kant's Reason

The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant

Prof Karl Schafer (University of Texas at Austin)

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Oxford University Press
22 August 2023

Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Ethics & moral philosophy; History of ideas

"Kant's Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or ""comprehension""). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and practical rationality, without reducing either to the other. In particular, it enables us to see why the activities of both theoretical and practical reason are governed by a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, while also seeing why reason is essentially autonomous. At the same time, Kant's Reason reads Kant as presenting a compelling picture of the role that reason, as a capacity or power, should play in a systematic approach to foundational philosophical questions. In doing so, it argues for an account of the fundamental norms that apply to rational beings that treats neither substantive reasons or values nor merely structural rationality as fundamental, but instead provides a robust conception of reason as a power or capacity for theoretical and practical understanding. The result is a form of rational constitutivism, which contrasts both with the forms of reasons fundamentalism that are currently fashionable and the forms of agency-first constitutivism that have dominated Kantian metaethics. In this sense, this volume aims to vindicate Kant's insistence that his philosophy represents nothing more or less than reason's implicit self-understanding coming to explicit and systematic self-consciousness."

By: Prof Karl Schafer (University of Texas at Austin)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 592g
ISBN: 9780192868534
ISBN 10: 0192868535
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karl Schafer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he served as Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also been a Lawrence S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, a Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow with the ACLS/Mellon Foundation.

Reviews for Kant's Reason: The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant

Schafer has written an excellent book... Anyone working on Kant today will find that he has touched on, and in some cases transformed, issues that are central to their research. It is a landmark achievement. * Nicholas Stang, University of Toronto * This is a wonderful book, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in Kant's conception of reason, the unity of his system as a whole, or constitutivism and the various forms it can take... I'm extremely grateful that we now have this book out in the literature. * Rosalind Chaplin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *